Barry M Rainbow Fish Disco

Hey everyone, long time no see! It's out busiest time of year at work so I'm struggling somewhat to fit nail polish and blogging in, This design is one from last week which I did keep on for just over a week, it lasted well but I persuaded myself to take it off in order to start swatching some new A England polishes.

For this design I started with a metallic silver base (colours listed below the pictures) followed by a silver holographic polish. The holo was stronger and more pigmented than I expected so I possibly didn't need the metallic layer. On my index finger I topped up the holo, and on the others I prepared fish/mermaid scale decals.

I used the Bundle Monster twi_star collaboration plate for the scale image. It's a really handy one which I have used for a few designs. You can do a lot with it, and it's quite long so works for my nails at any length! I created decals on my Uber Mat using Barry M's newest additions to their underwater collection. I like the newer ones better than the first lot as they're brighter colours. I left a few scales blank for the holographic polish to shine through. You can see how I created the decals here.

So overall I really liked these, can't go wrong with fish/mermaid scales! The colours make me think of birthday parties.

Colours used: Silver Lining - Barry M, Harp On It - Color Club, Midnight Mischief - Painted Polish, Moonfish - Barry M, Seahorse - Barry M, Pacific Flame - Barry M, Electric Eel - Barry M

Little Bit of London On My Nails

So this blog post will probably always annoy me as there are two rather blurry pictures, but I would otherwise have been left with only two pictures and somehow this was the lesser of two evils! Need to be more careful when I'm taking them I guess!

I've been meaning to do some London themed nail art with my Mo You London Scandi plates for a while, and it turns out I have the perfect sparkly Big Ben shade, which I guess could mean I have too much nail polish... (shock, horror!). I decided early on I wanted some sparkle in this, I think it's the time of year now where I will always be a little bit sparkly!

I used the Scandi 01 plate from Mo You London for the bus and phone box image, and the Scandi 03 plate for the Big Ben image. I was going to go all our with the London Eye etc but am glad I kept it simple as I think it goes well with the black. I used the advanced stamping technique to colour in the images, you can see how here. I didn't do too well with the red, I think it was because I was sleepy but they did look a little messy! Big Ben came out a lot better. Just re-doing my nails with something mermaidy - but looking forward to the imminent start of Christmas nails!
Colours used: Higitus Figitus - Danglefoot Polish, Cream Soda - Barry M, Midnight Mischief - Painted Polish, Madder - Cirque Colors, Taupe Temptation - Painted Polish, Wuthering Heights - A England 

Halloween Scenes

Only a week late I am finally blogging my Halloween nails! I couldn't really get great pictures of these but I was quite pleased with them. I only ended up doing one lot of Halloween nails due to timing with it being so busy at work.

I started with a metallic purple base, it's a ten year old Barry M polish so I was pretty impressed with how good it still is! I couldn't quite choose which images to use so used a different one on each nail. For some I've coloured them in using the advanced stamping technique, you can see how here. For others I layered the images to try and make them stand out a little better. On my little fingers I painted the glitter on freehand.

I used four different stamping plates for this: Festive 16, Gothic 10 and Minimal 10 from Mo You London, and H08 from Bundle Monster. My favourite image was the one with the witch in front of the moon. I used an image from the minimal plate and a witch from the Festive 16 plate to create a decal for this. I used a bit of shimmer on the moon images and church window which didn't really come out in the picture but I liked.

Hopefully I can be more organised next year!
Colours used: 191 - Barry M, Midnight Mischief - Painted Polish, White - Emily de Molly, Nauti Nudist - Painted Polish, Good Vibes Only - Nails Inc